James Clear

You know, they go six days a week instead of one day a week. There are a lot of strong community elements there. You also see crossfitters pick up a bunch of habits they didn't even expect.

Like they thought they were going to start working out, but then six months later, they all are buying the same brand of knee sleeves and they have a certain type of weightlifting shoe and they're all eating paleo. And it was like, we didn't even plan on doing that stuff. I just was gonna go to a gym to work out. But all of those are behaviors that signal what it means to be part of that group.

Like they thought they were going to start working out, but then six months later, they all are buying the same brand of knee sleeves and they have a certain type of weightlifting shoe and they're all eating paleo. And it was like, we didn't even plan on doing that stuff. I just was gonna go to a gym to work out. But all of those are behaviors that signal what it means to be part of that group.

And again, once you start to build friends in that group and start to become, ingrained in that society or in that tribe, you start to soak up some of those other behaviors as well.

And again, once you start to build friends in that group and start to become, ingrained in that society or in that tribe, you start to soak up some of those other behaviors as well.

I think it's more about making it obvious. I would lump it more in the first law. Design the environment to make the good habit the obvious one, to make the good habit the path of least resistance. Some other nudges that are very popular people talk about is like default choices on forms. The very famous example being the organ donor study.

I think it's more about making it obvious. I would lump it more in the first law. Design the environment to make the good habit the obvious one, to make the good habit the path of least resistance. Some other nudges that are very popular people talk about is like default choices on forms. The very famous example being the organ donor study.

default opting in every employee to a 401k and making them opt out is a nudge. I think that's also another example of making it obvious. Or we could also say making it easy. Nothing's easier than letting it ride. All of those are examples. To your point about default food environment, Daria Rose, who writes a nutrition blog, she's got a great concept. I just like it. It's kind of sticky.

default opting in every employee to a 401k and making them opt out is a nudge. I think that's also another example of making it obvious. Or we could also say making it easy. Nothing's easier than letting it ride. All of those are examples. To your point about default food environment, Daria Rose, who writes a nutrition blog, she's got a great concept. I just like it. It's kind of sticky.

Home court habits and away court habits. The argument is like, try to optimize your home court habits first. What's the environment where... It's your kitchen. It's your apartment. You get to set the tone and let's just try to prime all of that. Whatever happens at a restaurant or when you're at a hotel traveling or whatever, let's don't worry about that as much right now.

Home court habits and away court habits. The argument is like, try to optimize your home court habits first. What's the environment where... It's your kitchen. It's your apartment. You get to set the tone and let's just try to prime all of that. Whatever happens at a restaurant or when you're at a hotel traveling or whatever, let's don't worry about that as much right now.

Let's just optimize the home court. I like that. If you can build a home court advantage for yourself, then you get in a good situation. You start to build some momentum. You handle the thing that you're probably going to be doing 70% of the time or 80% of the time. And then after that, you can move on to the way court stuff.

Let's just optimize the home court. I like that. If you can build a home court advantage for yourself, then you get in a good situation. You start to build some momentum. You handle the thing that you're probably going to be doing 70% of the time or 80% of the time. And then after that, you can move on to the way court stuff.

to be seeking the approval of others and all those sorts of other things is there any research to support this idea i don't know of any studies that like distinguish clearly between those two it's quite possible there are plenty out there i just may not know of them but i can see it working well on both sides and i also see complexities on both sides so a lot of the time when people talk about accountability partners they join a facebook group or they join a course or a program or something and they get matched up the way that you described

to be seeking the approval of others and all those sorts of other things is there any research to support this idea i don't know of any studies that like distinguish clearly between those two it's quite possible there are plenty out there i just may not know of them but i can see it working well on both sides and i also see complexities on both sides so a lot of the time when people talk about accountability partners they join a facebook group or they join a course or a program or something and they get matched up the way that you described

But I can actually see that form of accountability kind of falling apart fairly quickly for a simple reason, which is it's a stranger and you don't really bear much cost for them thinking you did a bad job or you may not really value or care that much about their opinion.

But I can actually see that form of accountability kind of falling apart fairly quickly for a simple reason, which is it's a stranger and you don't really bear much cost for them thinking you did a bad job or you may not really value or care that much about their opinion.

Compare that to the example I gave earlier, which is you walk outside and your neighbor sees that your lawn is very sloppy and you haven't mowed the grass in three weeks. That actually you may care pretty deeply about because you don't want to be judged by the other people in the neighborhood and you don't want to have friction with your neighbor and so on.

Compare that to the example I gave earlier, which is you walk outside and your neighbor sees that your lawn is very sloppy and you haven't mowed the grass in three weeks. That actually you may care pretty deeply about because you don't want to be judged by the other people in the neighborhood and you don't want to have friction with your neighbor and so on.

And so there's much more of a cost there. And that form of accountability is a lot stronger because there's some reason why you really want to fall through on it. Now, you could say that that same thing is true for, you know, for example, a marriage or relationship. I don't want to let my partner down. I don't want them to think poorly of me and so on.